Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

 

Yes, I was watching a programme that focused on children as young as 10 hanging around streets, drinking alcohol.

 

What is their excuse?

 

"There is nothing for us, no where to go, nothing to do".

 

Would it be so hard to pick up a book and read, get some mates together and play sport, develop an interest in say painting. Volunteer to help in the community, clean gardens for the elderly, take up astronomy, join a choir, grow fruit and veg, learn the history of your city, town or community. take up classes at your local school or college, learn to cook.

 

Man, there are so many things you can do in life. This constant complaining that the council don't provide things for them to do gets right on my nerves. When I was a kid we did all sorts of things, never bored and quite happy to try many different things. Not reliant on the council doing things for us.

 

We did not have pots of money, so made most of our own fun when we could not afford to go swimming or to the cinema.

 

The problem with kids these days is that a lot of them think they are entitled to have everything given to them on a plate. They don't seem to have the ingenuity or compunction to go and make your own entertainment. They need to stop complaining.

 

I agree EC  

velvet donkey posted:

I don't wanna die but a bottle plus of whisky is killing me.

Are you being serious Velvy?

velvet donkey posted:

To be honest I'm running out of steam with life.

velvet donkey posted:

I don't wanna die but a bottle plus of whisky is killing me.

 Velvet. 

velvet donkey posted:

To be honest I'm running out of steam with life.

You always have us Velvet. 

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

velvet donkey posted:

To be honest I'm running out of steam with life.

You always have us Velvet. 

I wholeheartedly second that 

Baz posted:

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

velvet donkey posted:

To be honest I'm running out of steam with life.

You always have us Velvet. 

I wholeheartedly second that 

Me too

Baz posted:

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

velvet donkey posted:

To be honest I'm running out of steam with life.

You always have us Velvet. 

I wholeheartedly second that 

As do I 

This sort of stuff - which is quite laughable in how poorly it is done and clearly a scam. But really annoying I get so many of them.

Oh my friend got one of those,

"You have a relative with the same name who has sadly died in a road traffic accident and you are the single beneficiary"

She called me in floods of tears (not joking) saying she was about to  become a millionaire.

A few clicks later I proved she wasn't 

Handed over tonight's LOTTO to be checked not realising it's Tuesday today

Cashier checked it and said,

"Not a winner do you want it in the bin?"

"Yes"

"Hang on isn't it Tuesday today - well that was for tonight"

She checked ripped up ticket, "Oh yeah - i'll cellotape it"

I hope it's ok 

Tis a delicious offering and simply makes the world a better place 

A very nice pagoda there  

This can't continue in an annoyance thread so let me finish with the stately 300s

Sadly true - even said themselves the 'over-engineered' days have ended 

Now they're on about the bloody Yemen

And now Care Work - it's in crisis ... apparently

I'm starting to think we're at crisis point with our sensational reporting.

When extreme becomes the norm where have we left to go?

Escape to the Wild with that annoying Kevin bloody McCloud

He's extolling the virtues of a back to basics, living off the land as if it's a revolutionary modern discovery.

One that's better cos it's a subsistence existence in tune with the land.

But in their own tiny way they are polluting the land, chopping the trees and sitting right over the top of a wood fire gushing smoke in their faces.

If we all did this we'd go back 200yrs to a time where people lived til they were 50 if they were lucky and hoped they never contracted an illness cos the nearest hospital is 300miles away without a car cos you chose a horse n cart.

It's a living he believes so much it's one he doesn't practice himself - he lives in Frome in Somerset.

Idiot

Charlie Luxton has caught the twit-like Kevin Idiot McCloud bug.

Homes by the Med - here he is wetting his pants about a box-type rabbit hutch on a stone beach with a howling gale for a friend.

It'd rubbish basically but you'd think he'd rediscovered God

Saint posted:

Charlie Luxton has caught the twit-like Kevin Idiot McCloud bug.

 

Homes by the Med - here he is wetting his pants about a box-type rabbit hutch on a stone beach with a howling gale for a friend.

 

It'd rubbish basically but you'd think he'd rediscovered God

 I know what you mean Renton 

I'm in a restaurant and a young woman has bent over to pick up her toddler. In doing so she revealed her stockings and suspenders. Put me right off my Dim Sum !!

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

 

I'm in a restaurant and a young woman has bent over to pick up her toddler. In doing so she revealed her stockings and suspenders. Put me right off my Dim Sum !!

 

 

 

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

 

I'm in a restaurant and a young woman has bent over to pick up her toddler. In doing so she revealed her stockings and suspenders. Put me right off my Dim Sum !!

 

 

 

Yeah but has she wilted your pak choi?

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

 

I'm in a restaurant and a young woman has bent over to pick up her toddler. In doing so she revealed her stockings and suspenders. Put me right off my Dim Sum !!

 

 

 

Rofl  

Saint posted:

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

 

I'm in a restaurant and a young woman has bent over to pick up her toddler. In doing so she revealed her stockings and suspenders. Put me right off my Dim Sum !!

 

 

 

Yeah but has she wilted your pak choi?

Lmao 

Saint posted:

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

 

I'm in a restaurant and a young woman has bent over to pick up her toddler. In doing so she revealed her stockings and suspenders. Put me right off my Dim Sum !!

  

Yeah but has she wilted your pak choi?

PMSL!! 

Saint posted:

Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:

 

I'm in a restaurant and a young woman has bent over to pick up her toddler. In doing so she revealed her stockings and suspenders. Put me right off my Dim Sum !!

 

 

 

Yeah but has she wilted your pak choi?

Very good Mr Saint.

It was quite unexpected and really did not sit well with my pork balls.

I bet she could have them sizzling in the palm of her hand.

 You two are nuts ...lovable nuts ....but nuts all the same  

They are nutters but they're our nutters.

Yogi19 posted:

They are nutters but they're our nutters.

They sure are 

Baz posted:

Yogi19 posted:

They are nutters but they're our nutters.

They sure are 

The constant exaggerated news being peddled by all media sources in an attempt to 'sex up' their output.

Everything is in crisis - everything seems to be a 'greater challenge' - everyday I see this reported.

Today? Climate change will alter the way we garden !!! EEEKK !!!!

No it's not ... and IF it does there's an argument the world temp changes are cyclical anyway OR it won't influence our life time. How? Well ...

A nice old lady has been tracking climatic influence on an oak tree ... causing it to bud three weeks earlier than it did 50yrs ago.

Err - hardly an ecological disaster there.

What they WON'T push is that the major influence over wildlife destruction and wildflower decline is modern farming methods, use of pesticides and house building.

Where's the 'fun' in fun size?

It's just less of what you want!!

Saint posted:

Where's the 'fun' in fun size?

 

It's just less of what you want!!

 So true

Damon Albarn - the new Bono

Irritating knob  (leave it Sprout it can't be fixed)

Think's he's doing something special or important - he's not

Saint posted:

Damon Albarn - the new Bono

Irritating knob  (leave it Sprout it can't be fixed)

Think's he's doing something special or important - he's not

I think it can  

Yep - with a gun

Saint posted:

Yep - with a gun

Bit drastic   

ok  - with the off button?

velvet donkey posted:

Salt in everything.

velvet donkey posted:

Salt in everything.

....and ascorbic / tartaric acid in everything